The most amazing sort of critic was one who praised us adoringly early on, but when Touch & Go left Detroit, where this critic lived, we became his fave example of shit music. I think we took the brunt of his anger over what he perceived as betrayal by T&G for pulling out of Wheel City. He's a music scribe for the Village Voice now, but that's not to say he grew up.
Three guesses, guys.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
"I was a food-service employee at the University of Wisconsin, but all I ever had to do was encourage people to wash dishes. And then I'd to watch TV in my boss's office. I became a big fan of 21 Jump Street. I felt that there was no reason all my co-workers couldn't keep their houses filled with coffee and ice cream from the stockroom. Dan got fired from a job like that for eating bacon."
http://www.geocities.com/renaldo_larue/killdozer/interviews/warp1994.htm
"His experience includes helping design, establish, and administer executive compensation arrangements, equity-based incentive plans, incentive bonus plans, and deferred compensation plans, as well as individual employment and severance agreements."
http://www.smrh.com/attorneys/bios/bio.cfm?attorneyid=781
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Dan Hobson continues to live in Madison, WI, where he is a nurse, happily married, and raising two (at last count) beautiful children.Bill Hobson lives in rural Southern California where he is happily married and raising an untold number of beautiful children. He works in the movie biz as a grip. As a bonus:Paul Zagoras lives on a farm outside of Madison, WI, with his beautiful wife that he imported from Japan. Nobody knows what Paul does for a living.
Erik Tunison lives in Amsterdam with a lady (the last I heard), where he manages a hipster night club and gets high all the time.
Jeff Ditzenburger lives in Milwaukee with his wife. What more needs to be said? Children may or may not be involved.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
awesome.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't believe this is the guy I last saw when standing next to him in the urinals of Leicester Princess Charlotte, dressed in rhinestone-studded faux-cowboy get-up. (That's Gerald not me, btw).
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been looking for Killdozer shirts on ebay for years. Mostly I give up and buy something that looks like what they're wearing in the above photo (which has been hanging over my desk for ten years).
Killdozer - For Ladies Only 7" picture disc box set anyone?
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
i've been called luciferi've been called satanbut my name is richardand you, you can call me dick
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Viva Madison punk!
http://citypages.com/letters/detail.asp?TID=1068
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, mike wants everyone here to know that the Last Waltz (the mans ruin record) is back in print and there is a Killdozer tribute record in the works. Go here for more info: http://www.crustaceanrecords.com/bands/index.php?BID=35&UID=
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
you mean Butch?
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
The last line of my show review (a slam, natch) hinted the beer spillage was intentional. I heard later that Mike Gerald thought the review was really funny until he got to the beer part - then he got pissed off.
Killdozer's shtick was a little too musically schematic for me to appreciate - but Gerald is a hell of a writer. I remember reading some of his childhood recollections in a fanzine in the late 80s, great stuff. Some of it became the basis for Killdozer lyrics, I think - something about a dad who accidentally shoots himself in the stomach with a shotgun?
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I used to know a man named BurtWhen I was but a ladHe was an old acquaintanceOf my mom and my dad
I don't think that I met himMore than just onceBut I still recall him wellI'm not goddamn dunce
And you would not believeWhat it was that he had doneHe blew his own fucking guts outWith his own fucking gun
Yeah, mom and folks They were shocked as you can imagineWhen they heard about old BurtAnd I said to myselfI said "Ouch, that's gotta hurt!"
It happened in the drivewayRight next to Burt's CadillacThe shot entered through his bellyAnd it went out through his back
Make no mistakesNo if's and's or but'sAll over the brand new asphaltWere Burt's fucking guts
Burt's bitch stood screamingAs Burt ate the dirtAnd I said to myselfI said "Holy fuck, that's gotta hurt!"
OOOOOOOUUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHHHHHH!
But you know what's funnyAbout Burt's loss of lifeIs that he was getting gun outSo that he could kill him wife
But there he lay bleedingHis head next to a hubAnd all I can say to myselfIs "Therein lies the rub!"
I like coffee, it likes meI'd like to have some Maxwell House coffeeWhat'd you call this cup of shit's going to beWhy I'd rather drink from the dick of a goatI tell you motherfucker that's all she wroteI like coffee, it likes meA cuppa cuppa cuppa cuppa coffeeAnd Maxwell House is the best coffeeI like coffee, it likes me
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I wish I still had that fanzine, it had a bunch of midwest indie rockers writing for it, like Gerald and one of the guys from Urge Overkill. Gerald's piece was more wistful in tone than those lyrics, like the Prairie Home Companion crossed with Gummo. Ah well, lost to the sands of time, or in the stacks of the library at Bowling Green U...
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Fuck - they had great lyrics ...
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
This begs a question or two.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
esp. because every song has the line "let me tell you" in it!
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Now for the rest of those rarities, somehow. I AM ON THE MISSION.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe try to find me on slsk (sbsweaty).
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
ha ha I just thought their records after *Snakeboy* weren't as good as *Snakeboy*!
Anyway, by some crazy coincidence, I just noticed this this morning (in Tony Jasper's and Derek Oliver's *The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal*:
>Killdozer (France)
Despite being French, this band sing only in English. Their music is subdued and the LP is only worth buying if it is cheap.
*Killdozer* (CBS) 1980
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 3 February 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link